Wouldn't it be exciting to find out what the whole universe is made of? Better yet. Wouldn't it be interesting to find out that it's all made of the same stuff, only arranged differently? What's more. What if you could take some of this universal stuff and rearrange it into just about anything you would like? If you could do that… what could you build, how would you assemble it… and how valuable would that knowledge be?

   Scientist, educator and author Richard Feynman wrote: "What about the machinery of it? All we have done is to describe how the earth moves around the Sun, but we have not said what makes it go… no one… has given us any machinery."

   The mystery of the machinery has prevented scientists from understanding how big things like the gravity works with little things like atoms. The two opposing views called, Quantum Mechanics (which deals with little things) and Relativity (which deals with great big things,) are incompatible and incomplete, causing scientists to search for a combination explanation called a "The Theory of Everything."

   Relativity gave us Einstein's famous E=mc2 formula for determining the amount of energy in an atom, but it didn't explain how atoms work inside. However, now we know that his energy is organized into very precise patterns in space called fields. That's why Einstein died laboring over his 'Unified Field Theory' that was to combine all of physics into one intuitive, model or explanation of how everything works… a "theory of everything."

   These patterns of energy "E", press on… or "force" each other whenever they touch or overlap. Since force in motion is energy, these are force fields that move continually at "c", the speed of light.

   When fields overlap, they always interact according to the same, exact, cause-and-effect rules at each tiny location within each field where they touch. They are consistent and reliable. They always produce same results under the same circumstances. They always get it right.

   Even within each field system, this same mechanism causes the flowing energy to maintain its geometry and organization by force… in the case of the nucleus of an atom, by nuclear force. That's why most atoms remain stable over millions of years, always interacting with their surroundings in mathematically predictable ways. Iron maintains itself as iron, and oxygen as oxygen.

   There exist a variety of slightly different force-field component geometries that act as a code when sequenced through each complete flow pattern. We see this in light and radio waves as polarization, intensity, and phase, capable of delivering to us the sound of a beautiful voice or a television program. Likewise, each field-flow sequence is also like a sequential computer program. They are to atoms, light, and gravity what DNA is to living things. They are the reason iron and oxygen combine consistently to produce rust, and not chocolate piggies.

   This fundamental mechanism within resonant fields governs and generates everything we observe, and everything we are yet to observe. It produces all of the natural laws of physics… those we have discovered, and those we have yet to discover. Its regularity is the reason we can use mathematics to predict how physical systems will work. It is the reason things behave in a consistent way.

   So now we know that the entire universe, you and me and everything else is made of the same stuff… resonant force fields, organized by an accumulation of basic force field interactions following very accurate and consistent rules. This is that "mechanism" Feynman sought.

   In coming lessons we will learn how we can manipulate field structures, and how we can resolve the problems between Relativity and Quantum Mechanics.

   Now that was easy, wasn't it!